Methodist Episcopal Church of Jacksonville

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Tompkins County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5020 Jacksonville Rd., Jacksonville, 14854
When was it listed? November 2018
Category. building
Town. Ulysses town
National Register reference number. 100003120 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

54 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Jacksonville between 2002 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Tompkins County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Jacksonville: 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Halite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cayuga Crushed Stone Quarry & Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cayuga Crushed Stone Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cayuga Mine and Mill	Halite	Past Producer	Halite
Cargill, Inc., Div. of Cayuga Rock	Salt	Plant
Cayuga Rock Salt Core	Salt	Prospect

Every working recorded in Tompkins County

Storms near this property

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree in the middle. Another nearby large tree landed on a house.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tompkins County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1902 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1942 USGS Ludlowville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Ludlowville quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Ludlowville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cayuga Preventorium	3.1 miles	2021
Hermon Camp House	3.1 miles	1973
First Presbyterian Church of Ulysses	3.2 miles	1999
Second Baptist Society of Ulysses	3.4 miles	2001
William Austin House	3.6 miles	2002
Hayt's Chapel and Schoolhouse	4.5 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003120 in Record Group 79.
Tompkins County	All 64 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.